Word: coups
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...place and play the hero (unsurprisingly, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., gives the book a glowing endorsement). A Russian Mafia boss kills his president and sets his sights on the throne. He colludes with a brainy German gangster and a rogue Chinese general who’s planning a coup and may have tortured Santini in Vietnam. And did I mention the inhumanly beautiful Israeli assassin with whom Santini is romantically involved...
...with the virgin birth of Jesus. Roman Catholic dogma teaches that Mary was conceived without original sin and therefore didn't need to be baptized. Kenneth Sweigart Paradise, Pennsylvania, U.S. More Than a Democratic Label Re Andrew Marshall's essay "Dictator's delight" [Oct. 9], on the Thai military coup: Democracy must not be a meaningless label. When Western leaders recommend that other nations implement democracy, they are endorsing a system of government that has checks and balances among the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches. They surely do not envision the installation of a President who decides judicial matters without...
...answers with a firm but friendly Fijian yes. For Fraser, writing the original play was the beginning of his own belated Pacific homecoming. His subsequent play Paradise was set in a Fijian island resort in the weeks before the May 2000 coup attempt, and it was while in Suva on a writing residency in 2001 that Fraser began his screenplay for No. 2. "Fiji is still an enigma for me," he concedes. But "I figure I know what makes New Zealand tick these days, especially Mount Roskill." With its Pacific wave, New Zealand cinema is all the more refreshing...
...coup was getting him to grant several long interviews in which he is cheerfully "disassociative," as Berg puts it. Why would he so expose himself? Because, she thinks, he went in and confessed to the church and was granted absolution, which doesn't encourage one "to really punish yourself." In a way, that's also true of the visibly squirming Roger Cardinal Mahony, shown in a videotaped deposition as he tries to defend himself (and his church's wealth and power) from the scandal. Whether or not legal consequences derive from it, that footage alone makes Deliver Us from Evil...
...Marshall noted, the day democracy in Southeast Asia may have the last laugh indeed "remains a long way off." But the Thai coup, while not an event worth celebrating, should not have been a shock and is not a blow to democracy in the region. Rather, it simply shows how little progress democracy has made in putting down roots since the last coup. Efforts to establish democracy in Thailand have failed because they have been imposed from the top. Nothing has been done to educate the people at the grass roots, thus leaving a very shaky foundation. The development...